Humanoid_Robots

Humanoid Robots Rodney: Is he merely an impersonator' Our brains are the most impressive achievement of evolution we know of. They are several million times more powerful than anything created by man. Our brains create our sense of self, our consciousness. This very personal part of each of us is created by neural networks in our skulls, a concept so hard to believe that a large percentage of the population instead believe our “self” is generated by a supernatural soul. It is now 2043, and regardless of belief, we know enough about biological brains to build digital ones. In fact, the local university has already discovered this and created “Rodney.” Rodney is a humanoid with life like plastic skin, capable of conversing on many subjects, can play the piano, displays emotion like behavior, and can solve difficult math problems. The controversial question revolving around Rodney is whether he should be considered conscious. And if so, would this allow him to have rights as people do in society' In order to evaluate this situation, our definitions and terms of what consciousness and personhood should be made clear. I regard consciousness as the ability to humans, rights, behavior, rodney, man, feeling, society, person, chinese, should, considered, consciousness, aware, sense, human, conscious, based, similar, self, people, organisms, emotions, capable, whether, through, symbols, situation, same, really, life, humanoid, feelings, experience, computers, years